How do I open a Firefox bookmarks file (.json) without using Firefox?

Q:How do I open a Firefox bookmarks file (.json) without using Firefox?

Had a number of abrupt computer shutdowns due to power outage and now Firefox won't open no matter what I do. I'm trying to recover all my bookmarks before I reinstall Firefox. So, after identifying which file it is (I think) I'm trying to get a look inside so I can record everything.

Thanks! I'm all ears!

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How do I open a Firefox bookmarks file (.json) without using Firefox?

I recommend downloading and running Reimage. It's a computer repair tool that has been proven to identify and fix many Windows problems with a high level of success.

A: How do I open a Firefox bookmarks file (.json) without using Firefox?

Your bookmarks and other preferences are stored in a separate and independent location/file on your disk, so you should be able to delete and reinstall Ff without needing to do a special save for them. See if the information linked to below does not, however, answer your question:http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Backing%20up%20and%20restoring%20bookmarks

hi & merry christmas to all !!i have been a regular firefox user for a few months now.I want to know if i can make my bookmarks open in a new tab when i click them?i know of the extension "tab mix plus " but it has bugs wuth other extensions.

Using a bookmark icon placed between the "address" and the "search engine" bars. When I move the cursor down the bookmarks, one category will open to the left, one to the right, left, right, left right.............I would like them ALL to open to one side or the other.Any suggestions ??

A:How To Make Firefox Open Bookmarks Category Menus to One Side Only

there are two bookmark icons one has a dropdown arrow, i guess this is the one you have , right click the top of firefox and select customise, in the window that opens then find the other bookmark icon and drag it to where you like on the ff toolbar ,you can also move any other icon to where you want in the toolbar.

open, when I click on run and type any address, even google - no response. When I open Firefox I get a blank page. I was on Show Me Do's website watching a video when the back button quit functioning the delicious bookmarks stopped working and I couldn't watch/change or navigate from or to any other site. When I closed Firefox and re-opened I get a blank page and no response except if I type about:config, that I can get to. Anyone else ever have this happen? Anyone know what might be causing it?

I'm using mac OS 10.5. I am trying to reinstall a clean version of firefox which is not a problem but I can't figure out how to get my old bookmarks back in. The browser has a function to import bookmarks from Safari, Internet Explorer and Opera but not previous bookmarks from firefox. I've tried to replace the bookmarks.html file in the application support folder, but it doesn't work. Does anyone know how to doe this?

A:reinstalling firefox and importing previous firefox bookmarks

I don't know the differences between firefox for windows and mac, but in windows you would click on bookmarks - then click on organize bookmarks, you can import your html file there.

So I just thought of doing a SFC scan now to check if my system is good with no corrupt files or not.

Now it seems there are no issues, even Microsoft has said the win update that caused the files to go corrupt is a false alarm in SFC check.

The issue I have: (I've tried removing the update and then re-doing the SFC can now but no result.)
The Tech Cookbook – Windows 7 update (KB3022345) causing corrupt files

The zip file is corrupt in the article so can't run the fix tool.

However I also did CheckSUR and that said NO Errors.

Which I guess is good news.

However how can I fix this issue that sfc scannow says no more corrupt files.

My result log shows the corrupt files.

A:Cannot repair member file “utc.app.json” and other json files

These errors are now caused (as in your case) also by KB3068708.

In the case of KB3022345, I recommend removal of the update, and hiding it if it reappears in Windows Update.The jury is still out on KB3068708 - you can either uninstall and hide it, or just ignore the errors.

I'm running Win 8 and FF latest version. I cannot find a way to delete that darn drop-down menu from my bookmarks toolbar and it's wasting a lot of precious space. It doesn't show up in the "Customize" view and it won't delete, cut, or move in the Organize Bookmarks window. I've googled and goolged but can't find a solution.

Hey everyone. Why is Firefox 3.6.10 removing the bookmarks from my bookmarks toolbar whenever I add the bookmark to a folder under the bookmarks menu? Note: I am not moving them, I am going to the website and bookmarking them all over again so as to put them in a folder. However, when I do this, the bookmark gets removed from the toolbar and put in the folder. I really don't like this. I want to be able to have my bookmarks in two different places: both on the toolbar and in the folder.

A:Why does Firefox remove the bookmarks from my bookmarks toolbar?

Probably a Firefox feature to help you avoid duplicates.

After you have it once just copy it to where you want it. I just tested this with 3.5.13 copying from Bookmarks toolbar to another folder.

Hi, hope you can help since I am desperate. My windows nightly seamonkey seems to have eaten all my recent html bookmarks/personal toolbar files. The latest bookmarks are still in the new json files in the bookmarkbackups folder but I can't get seamonkey 2.0.13pre to replace the html file with one o the stored json backups. The advised deleting of place... files only resulted in basic 3k bookmarks.html file. Does anyone know how to force seamonkey to use - convert the json or is there some application to convert the backup bookmark json file into an html-bookmark file seamonkey accepts? help very much appreciated.

when I try to click a link to download a PDF file, it automatically opens file in browser and opens atleast 30 new tabs. In my tool options, I have the download set to "Always ask where to download file to" ... what could be causing this??

A:When I open a PDF file in FireFox...

I don't know anything about this, especially all those tabs being opened, but suggest that you first check this:

Tools - Options... - Content - Manage...(under File Types) - See what's set for PDF files. Mine, for example, is Open with Adobe Acrobat plug-in. If you want a simple left click on the link to download instead of opening, I'm not sure if you can or what you'd change the Action to.

You might also make sure you have a recent version of whatever you use to open it. Adobe Acrobat reader is now at version 8.1.1, and you should probably have at least version 8 if you use it.

I have recently received by e-mail, an attachment as a .pps file, but, when I try to open it, a pop-up window with the instruction 'Open With'..Browse appears. Browsing produces various things such as Wordpad, Notepad, Sumatra PDf, etc., etc., none of which will open the file, and I can find no way to open .pps files. OS is Windows 7 Proffessional. How may I open such files,please?

I have recently received by e-mail, an attachment as a .pps file, but, when I try to open it, a pop-up window with the instruction 'Open With'..Browse appears. Browsing produces various things such as Wordpad, Notepad, Sumatra PDf, etc., etc., none of which will open the file, and I can find no way to open .pps files. OS is Windows 7 Proffessional. How may I open such files,please?

Hiya,First time post.Firefox.exe process invokes in Process Explorer, very briefly, if loaded directly from it’s shortcut, and is gone, without opening a window at all. I see now that upon shutting down the Vidalia bundle (Tor/Privoxy), firefox.exe process does stay started in Process Explorer, but still no window. If instead firefox is called upon by another program, such as filehippo or avast, say, it invokes the firefox.exe process but the browser window is nowhere to be seen, as with directly invokeing without the Vidalia bundle. ALT-Tab doesn’t show a firefox window open, and right-clicking on the process to bring that window to the front yields a greyed out option in the pop-up menu for ‘window’. So there’s no window. Troubleshooting on my own, I’ve now struggled by with IE, like now, and updated a bunch of programs from filehippo, including firefox itself, to version 3.0.4 build 2008102919, but still no firefox window.

Windows itself has updated this morning. My fellow user, a housemate, has not any such problem with firefox when we switch users. His works fine.There’s a bunch of crud in my hijack log, and I’ll post that below.I ran ccleaner this morning and cleaned my registry up, it needed it, but no solvie.I did a full avast scan including archives, and found no viruses.I’m running now with msconfig altered to bare startup stuff, to eliminate potential conflicts there.What could be the trouble I am standing by, scratching my head, waiting to pull... Read more

I was just curious if anybody has been receiving the same error message:

"Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your system."

I have been getting this on my laptop for a few weeks now, off and on, when I close Mozilla Firefox for whatever reason and try to reopen it immediately after. Usually, after receiving the error message I just wait a few seconds and try again and the browser opens just fine.

However, I now just found out that my cousin has been dealing with the same problem, only worse, when he uses his laptop at home. (different locations, different networks, different brands of laptop.) I witnessed first-hand that he had the same error message, only his did not go away, nor could we get his browser to open. He says this happens to him every time he closes Firefox and tries to reload.

We resolved this issue by opening the task manager and manually ending Mozilla under processes, not applications, since it was not on the applications list, but was on the processes list.

Tell me if you have been experiencing the same or similar issues with Mozilla Firefox. I am curious, because this is the only problem I have ever had with Firefox, other than the occasional browser crash.

Thanks,

.Chris

A:[SOLVED] Error: Firefox will not open because firefox is already running?

Had the same problem as your cousin with versions 3.5.0 and 3.5.1 but it has fixed itself with 3.5.2

If I download a Zip file from a website using Firefox 4, or3, the resulting opened file is gibberish. If I do it with explorer 8 or 9 it is fine.Visible differences are that in opening the file downloaded with explorer it becomes a PDF file and opens sensibly. In explorer the file to be downloaded is SG33V10.zip and this becomes becomes SG33V10.pdf.In Firefox the downloaded file has added a 1.htm to the zip ending and than makes a mess of opening it -the file to be downloaded is SG33V10.zip and on downloading this becomes SG33V10.zip-1.htm which on opening is rubbish

I have come to this website because I am at my wit's end with what to do about this piece of malware I have.I downloaded rkill and Combofix. I have Malware Bytes installed, but I am unable to run or open any of them. My task manager is clouded with consent.exe. Every time I try to open a file, another consent.exe appears in the task manager. I was able to run my anti-virus (Vipre) through hidden icons, but it only found:

fraudtool.win32.fakerean.d

with 2 traces. About a week and a half ago I got rid of (but not completely) a variant of the fake Win 7 Anti-Virus virus', and I'm sure it just crept back up on me. Also I can't run DDS, GMER or Hijack This for a log.

I can access the task manager and Firefox, but that's about it. I'm sure that's just so that it can steal any valuable information I ever put in (bank accounts, etc). When I open my start menu I can't select anything, I used to be able to expand the lower task bar to access mycomputer, but that just got locked up.

I'm running Windows 7 Starter Edition (never again will I ever get a Windows computer after this one...) on a Toshiba netbook.

Save the file to your desktop.Double click on the HJTsetup.exe icon on your desktop.By default it will install to C:\Program Files\HijackThis.Continue to click Next in the setup dialog boxes until you get to the Select Additional Tasks dialog.Put a check by Create a desktop icon then click Next again.Continue to follow the rest of the prompts from there.At the final dialog box click Finish and it will launch Hijack This.Click on the Do a system scan and save a log file button. It will scan and then ask you to save the log.Click Save to save the log file and then the log will open in notepad.At the top of the Notepad HJT log screen, hit Edit then Select All then click Edit and then click Copy doing that copies the text to the clipboard, you won't see it yet....Come back here to this thread and Paste the log in your next reply. DO NOT have Hijack This fix anything yet. Most of what it finds will be harmless or even required. A security expert with a gold shield to the right of their name should take a look at your log - please be patient.

I'm trying to log into ebay and having terrible problems, (other log-in sites let me sign in fine) even though my username is at the top when I first go on, it remembers me from last time and I see I'm logged in. But whenever I goto do something like revise an auction, and it wants me to sign in, it has my username pre-filled out, I just have to pop in my password..fair enough, this is where it starts to go pear shaped.

It then wants me to sign in for a second time, even though I just did, but this time it has even removed my username so I have to fill in both fields. Sometimes this works, but when I goto revise an auction or something like 'change the category', basically do something that requires ebay to do carry out an action, firefox actually tries to download a .dll file! and I can't go no further. I don't download the .dll file as I realise this is not right.

"You have chosen to open ebayISAPI.dll from http:/cgi5.ebay.co.ukWhat should firefox do with this file?Open with... dllfile (default)Or save to disk?"

Whats going on? Its annoying the [bleep] out of me as I sell on ebay daily, and cant alter my ads or sign in properly unless I click the IE engine tab in the bottom right to use ebay now.

Whats worse is that in the Internet Explorer engine option, I don't get the cut/copy/paste menu when I right click the highlighted text in the edit auction page, in 'edit HTML' where I want to change a few lines of code ... Read more

A:Problem in firefox, using ebay, sign-in asking me to open ebayISAPI.dll file

Is there a way that I can transfer all of my firefox booksmarks to another computer?

If so how please?

Thanks

A:Firefox Bookmarks

Hi there Daxxa, welcome to BC! http://mozbackup.jasnapaka.com/MozBackup allows you to backup and restore all your bookmarks, mail, contacts, history, extensions, cache, etc. from any Mozilla program (including Firefox)Just install it on both machines, run a backup on the old one, move the backup to the new one (on a flash drive or e-mail, for example) and run a restoration on the new computer.

I build a new computer not too long ago and in doing so I forgot to save all of my book marks in firefox. I still have my old HD in my new computer with a new HD as well. I have not really touched the old drive except to move things from it to the new one( it is starting to go bad). Anyway, I have installed firefox on my new computer but I need some of the bookmarks from the older HD. Anyone know how I can go and get the old ones and save them to new HD? Thanks for the help.

ukyfan

A:Getting Bookmarks From Another Hd (firefox)

You can get the bookmarks from your old Firefox profile folder.This is a hidden file, so you'll have to set windows to show hidden files:How to see hidden files in Windows Then navigate to:C:\ Documents and Settings \ user name \ Application Data \ Mozilla \ Firefox \ Profiles \ default.7dp \ Bookmark.htmlEither copy, or move that file, to the same location on your new harddrive, replacing the one that's there.

I can not seem to add New Bookmarks to firefox. All my existing bookmarks are still there and work fine, however when I go to bookmark this page, I just get a blank edit this bookmark dialog box.

I've tried manually enter bookmarks by just pasting the url and giving it a name. This does add it, however when you click on it, nothing happens, and when I go to the properties, it opens a glitched properties window, where only the top of the window appears.

I see people on the firefox forums were directly to this link:

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Locked_or_..._places.sqlite

I'm not sure what steps I should try first so that I don't lose all my bookmarks. I can make a backup, but I guess it will just be glitched like how it is now, so I'm not sure what to do, to save my book marks.

A:Cant add new bookmarks to firefox

You can go ahead a make the backup of your bookmarks just incase you lose them. And you can try the steps here http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2339588,00.asp

Upon the requirement to restore my hard drive, I backed up all files/folders to reinstall upon completion of the restoration. I have a folder for my "favorites" or "bookmarks" for web browsing and want to import them to Firefox. The import option imports them from another browser but I cannot find a bookmark folder in Firefox or find a method to easily move them from my folder. Can anyone provide assistance with moving them to Firefox?

Thank you

A:Firefox Bookmarks

Firefox does not use a folder for bookmarks, it uses a SQLite database file places.sqlite.You should backup/restore from Firefox menu : Bookmarks -> Organize Boormarks ->Import/Export bookmarks.You can also use Mozilla Backup tool for creating backup of all Firefox settings.

Firefox did an update yesterday for me and now I notice when I hit 'Bookmarks' the first option is 'Show All Bookmarks' while the second is 'Bookmark this page'. Has anyone noticed this?? They've gone and swapped them around.. Why would anyone want 'Show All Bookmarks' as their first option?? Are some people out there having trouble locating a page they bookmarked only a week ago?? Also when I hit 'Tools' what shows up right down the bottom is a tab dedictaed to Adblock plus (an addon) instead of 'Options' which has now been pushed up one. Again... Why?? Too hard for some to find their addons and configure Adblock from there?? Stick it right where Options used to be so THEY-CANT-MISS-IT?! I dont mind Firefox updates addressing security issues (they have to for their own sake) but leave my tabs alone!!

A:Firefox 6.0 Bookmarks

To bookmark current page it's much easier to just click on bookmark favicon at the end of your address bar.One click and you're done...

I did reinstalled Firefox to look like a new install do I saved the first bookmarks ? I import and backup,my bookmarks and choose export HTML. I saved my bookmarks in an HTML file on my Desktop I do not know where to restore the bookmarks back in Firefox?

I use FF all the time both on my desktop and my laptop.I keep my bookmarks up to date by keeping an updated Json file on my desktop and a backup on an external drive.

I updated last week when I got the newest version of FF. My json file is also up to date.

I don't brows much on the laptop but decided to update the FF. When I downloaded the latest ff I tried to import the json file but when I looked at the bookmarks.. they were the old set. I tried repeatedly to delete the old ones and did it manually... I uninstalled ff and reinstalled it but every time I try to get my new json file imported, it always loads the old set.

I searched for ff and mozilla files to delete any but didn't find any. I even dumped my cookies and cache but somehow I still have and old set of bookmarks turning up.How do I get rid of this hidden file?

I had over 100 bookmarks and when I turned on my computer they were all gone. I have tried some solutions but none of them worked, this is really frustrating cause ill never remember all of em. If you think you know whats wong please tell me.
Thanks

A:Firefox bookmarks GONE!!!

Hi and welcome to TSF.

You have not said what solutions you've tried. Have you perhaps moved your profile? Have a look here and see if any of the info helps.

firefox 15 is working more or less ok - pity not all IE html options cannot be emulated eg bgsound,also, i do not have bookmarks.html on the pc so how to improve the dreary bookmarks dropdown menuand customize the icons (or lack of them) ? regards to all.

At present, to access all of my Bookmarks I have to click the arrow at the end of the Toolbar. There is a way of enlarging this Toolbar so that I can see ALL of my Bookmarkswithout having to click that arrow. Advice on this would be appreciated. I cannot see to reference to it in any of the Mozilla Firefox tutorials.

A:Firefox Bookmarks

What version of Firefox are you running? In version 11, there are several ways to access your bookmarks. Personally, I prefer to add a bookmarks toolbar to the toolbar area of Firefox and add folders for different bookmark categories:

Another way is to add a bookmarks button to your toolbar. This opens up your bookmarks in a sidebar:

I bookmarked thousands of webpages in mozilla firefox!!! I made a backup C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox using the backup in windows as i needed to format my pc!! After formatting I restored the same folder using the file Backup.bkf!! Bt my bookmarks didnt show up!! Plz help as I need those links!!! The file backup.bkf is 20mb and the folder after restoring is also 20mb so i know my bookmarks are there somewhere!! I need help plz guys!!! Any sort of help will b highly appreciated!!!!

On Windows they are stored on: /Application Data/Mozilla/firefox/Profiles/default.#*$!/bookmarks.html It also has a backup on the same folder as bookmarks.bak

If you have a bookmarks.bak file, copy it, rename the copy to bookmarks.html and you're set. Don't do that while FF is running. I have not had such an experience, but I am backing up my bookmarks file once in a while. Seems like a good idea.